Franklin Park

New renderings show updated design plans for White Stadium, the proposed new home of Boston’s professional women’s soccer team. White Stadium was built in the 1940s but has been in a state of disrepair in recent years. Illustrations and video animations of a renovated and accessible White Stadium were presented by Boston Unity Soccer Partners at a design workshop...

Like last year, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, her staff and local volunteers are once again cleaning up Franklin Park here in Dorchester.

The Emerald Necklace Conservancy and some Boston residents are suing the city over the proposed privatization of the White Stadium in Franklin Park — which could become the home for a new professional women’s soccer team. In the lawsuit, filed Tuesday, the conservancy and 15 residents expressed concerns about the project, including the “unconstitutional privatization of public land,” “absence of…

Women’s professional soccer is making a comeback in Boston with a women-owned team.

Boston sports teams are certainly not strangers to hanging up championship banners. Now, another sports team is coming to New England to try and bring even more titles to the region. A brand new women’s professional soccer team will call George R. White Stadium in Franklin Park home, after the National Women’s Soccer League awarded Boston the rights to...

Mayor Wu and the commissioner for the National Women’s Soccer League will hold a 2 p.m. news conference to discuss the news.

An officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a Boston crash, but police have given few other details.

Aerial footage showed a police cruiser and another car damaged after a crash near Boston’s Franklin Park. The crash took place Thursday afternoon near the intersection of Seaver Street and Elm Hill Avenue in Roxbury. Details were limited, with police only saying that an officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash. No further information was immediately available.